Friday, October 25th
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Breakfast |
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Session 1A Chair: Yadav Gowda |
Session 1B Chair: Martin Hackl |
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| 9:00 am |
Ā-movement feeds licensing: A phase-based account Faruk Akkuş |
Same and Different: A Presuppositional Account Line Mikkelsen & Daniel Hardt [handout] |
| 9:30 am |
Pronominal licensing in Mam (Mayan) Tessa Scott |
Ever free-relative clauses and Maximize Presupposition Maayan Abenina-Adar [handout] |
| 10:00 am |
Licensing and anaphora in Tenyidie Andrew Murphy & Savio Meyase [handout] |
Presupposed free choice and the theory of scalar implicatures Paul Marty & Jacopo Romoli |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm |
Is "experimental" a gradable predicate? Kathryn Davidson |
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| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch (on your own) | Pop-up mentoring session (catered) Fourth floor of the Stata Center (Building 32) |
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Session 2A Chair: Tatiana Bondarenko |
Session 2B Chair: Anton Kukhto |
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| 1:15 pm |
How to satisfy probes: person/number hierarchy effects in Äiwoo Giovanni Roversi |
Gradient Feature Activity in Korean Place Assimilation Rachel Walker [handout] |
| 1:45 pm |
Interaction, satisfaction, and the PCC Amy Rose Deal |
A unified approach to several learning challenges in phonology Ezer Rasin, Itamar Shefi & Roni Katzir |
| 2:15 pm |
Adyghe cislocative: Canonical inverse but non-canonical PCC marker Imke Driemel, Marie-Luise Popp & Ahmet Bilal Özdemir |
Stepwise Height Harmony as Partial Transparency Caitlin Smith |
| 2:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Poster Session 1 & Snacks Student Street, 1st Floor of the Stata Center (Building 32) |
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Session 3A Chair: Norvin Richards |
Session 3B Chair: Sherry Yong Chen |
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| 4:15 pm |
The Left Edge Ban: a prosodic requirement governing stress patterns and word order Kenyon Branan |
Fixing De Morgan’s law in counterfactual antecedents Jacopo Romoli, Paolo Santorio & Eva Wittenberg |
| 4:45 pm |
Apparent syntax-prosody mismatches as right extraposition: Evidence from Mayan Justin Royer |
Ignorance and anti-negativity in the grammar: [or/some] and modified numerals Teodora Mihoc |
| 5:15 pm |
Floating Conjunctions and the Syntax-Prosody Interface Philipp Weisser |
Children are distributive not conjunctive Alan Bale, Dimitrios Skordos, Samuel Beech, Elena Pagliarini & David Barner |
| 5:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Break | |
| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Feature gluttony in the syntax of hierarchy effects Stefan Keine [handout] |
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Saturday, October 26th
| 8:30 am |
On-site registration & Breakfast |
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Session 4A Chair: Neil Banerjee |
Session 4B Chair: Boer Fu |
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| 9:00 am |
Strong Case Containment is too strong: two arguments from defaults Christos Christopoulos & Stanislao Zompì |
Tina Bögel |
| 9:30 am |
Emily Clem, Nicholas Rolle & Virginia Dawson |
A Foot-Based Approach to Interactions of Tonal Accent and Consonantal Strength Björn Köhnlein & Ian S. Cameron |
| 10:00 am |
A span is a thing: A span-based theory of words Peter Svenonius [handout] |
Lexical accents are underlying foot edges: New evidence from ancient Indo-European languages Anthony Yates |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Break | |
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Session 5A Chair: Peter Grishin |
Session 5B Chair: Fulang Chen |
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| 10:45 am |
Genuine Verb stranding VP-ellipsis in Lithuanian Eva Portelance |
Wh-quantifier float in German diagnoses: Ā-traces and successive cyclicity in vP Aaron Doliana [handout] |
| 11:15 am |
Voice and Case properties of Lithuanian Complex Event Nominalizations Milena Šereikaitė |
Echo wh-questions: A scope analysis Haoze Li |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Break | |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
The contribution of sound symbolic evidence to lexically-conditioned phonology Stephanie Shih |
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| 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Poster Session 2 & Lunch (catered) Student Street, 1st Floor of the Stata Center (Building 32) |
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Session 6A Chair: Eunsun Jou |
Session 6B Chair: Sabine Iatridou |
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| 2:30 pm |
A Lowering Analysis of Dagur CASE-POSS Order Mia Gong |
The role of time in double NPI constructions with epistemic accessibility relations Julie Goncharov & Lavi Wolf |
| 3:00 pm |
One classy number: Linking morphemes in Dutch and German Paula Fenger & Gísli Rúnar Harðarson |
Temporal reference in the absence of tense in Paraguayan Guaraní Roumyana Pancheva & Maria Luisa Zubizarreta |
| 3:30 pm |
The singulative of abundance: when one means a lot Maria Kouneli |
Magdalena Kaufmann & Stefan Kaufmann |
| 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm | Break | |
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Session 7A Chair: Stanislao Zompì |
Session 7B Chair: Keny Chatain |
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| 4:15 pm |
On the topic of subjects: composite Probes in Khanty Justin Colley & Dmitry Privoznov |
Quantification At a Distance and grammatical illusions Jérémy Pasquereau, Brian Dillon & Lyn Frazier |
| 4:45 pm |
It’s all in the probe: Variation in inverse marking and its implications for probe structure Will Oxford |
Learning biases in the relative order of person and number markers Mora Maldonado, Carmen Saldana & Jennifer Culbertson |
| 5:15 pm |
Deriving variation in ergativity across Eskimo-Aleut Michelle Yuan |
The source of nonfinite temporal interpretation Ellise Moon & Aaron Steven White |
| 5:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Break | |
| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Linguistics then and now: The view from NELS Paul Kiparsky |
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| 7:00 pm - 11:30 pm |
Reception and Dinner Samberg Center (Building E52) |
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Sunday, October 27th
| 8:30 am |
Breakfast |
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Session 8A Chair: Danfeng Wu |
Session 8B Chair: Kai von Fintel |
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| 9:00 am |
The nature of overlapping A-bar chains as revealed by parasitic gaps Colin Davis |
Idiomatic adjectives as an argument against HEAD-raising Andreas Pankau [handout] |
| 9:30 am |
Getting out of the way in Icelandic: a sideward movement approach Gary Thoms |
Quantified nouns in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıı̀ relative clauses Shay Hucklebridge |
| 10:00 am |
On two types of resumption in Igbo and the nature of islands Doreen Georgi & Mary Amaechi |
The syntax of non-restrictive relative clauses: a Mandarin case Jing Gao |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Break | |
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Session 9A Chair: Dmitry Privoznov |
Session 9B Chair: Frank Staniszewski |
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| 10:45 am |
Which-questions, uniqueness, and answerhood: evidence from disjunction Michaela Socolof, Bernhard Schwarz & Aron Hirsch |
Dorothy Ahn |
| 11:15 am |
Split partitivity in Mandarin: A diagnostic for argument-gap dependencies Fulang Chen |
Sprouting and the structure of "except"-phrases Richard Stockwell & Deborah Jia Ming Wong [handout] |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Break | |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
Concepts and Compositionality (Or, 'Escape from Alcatraz') Gillian Ramchand |
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| 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Business Meeting Room 32-123 |
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Poster Session 1 (Friday, October 25th)
- A Computational Analysis of Tone Sandhi Ordering Paradoxes
- A non-existential analysis for the German impersonal pronoun `man' in episodic sentences
- Against the in situ account of sluicing: The case of French
- Counterexpectation, free choice, and concessives in Tibetan
- Determinacy Theory of Movement
- Disjunction is not Boolean: novel evidence from Tiwa
- Evidence for polarity head: On the interaction of A'-movement and negation in Igbo
- French subjects are interveners
- Head Hiding
- Left branch extraction, freezing and object shift in Tumbalá Ch'ol
- Minimal sufficiency readings of necessity modals
- Morphological person restrictions and the pressure to realize local persons
- Negative concord is multiple agreement: sentential and phrasal negation in Washo
- One probe to Agree with them all: Kickapoo portmanteau agreement is syntactic
- Pronoun resolution, i-within-i effects and antecedent-contained deletion
- Pseudo-noun incorporation: A DP/VP approach
- Reduplicant Shape Alternations in Ponapean: Evidence Against Morphological Doubling Theory
- Reflexivity and reciprocity in Italian: an ambiguous matter
- The Distinction Between True and Pseudo Denominals? It’s an Illusion!
- The division of labor between representations and cophonologies in doubly conditioned processes in Amuzgo
- The ‘only’-concord in Vietnamese: Support for the bipartite analysis and Undermerge
- Why *"if or not" but ✓"whether or not"
Poster Session 2 (Saturday, October 26th)
- A puzzle of ko-occurrence: Negative indefinites in San Martin Peras Mixtec
- A Unified Analysis of Temporal in-adverbials (alternate talk)
- A unified licensing based approach to DSM and DOM: Evidence from subject-object person effects
- At the syntax-pragmatics interface: a quantitative study of aspect in locative inversion
- Configurational Information Structure: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese
- Deriving Wh-Correlatives in Mandarin Chinese: Wh-movement and (Island) Identity
- Ellipsis does not bleed Lowering. Evidence from do-support and fragment answers in Finno-Ugric
- Implicit arguments and relativized minimality
- Interpreting movement across phase boundaries
- Language-Specific Factors Influence Learnability: Case Study from Contour Tone Licensing
- Locality or recency: A story of two Chinese reflexives
- Minimalism Meets Mathematics: Movement as Factorization
- Morphological exceptions to de-pharyngealization in Cairene Arabic
- Movement and C-Command in German Complex Prefields: The Case Against Structure Removal
- Obviative agreement, word order, and the φ/δ divide
- Parentheticals associate with their hosts pragmatically, not syntactically: Evidence from as-parentheticals
- Perceived Pitch and Formant Frequencies in the perception of lexical tones in Cantonese
- Person-number asymmetries in switch reference
- "Privative case": displacement & renewal in the negative domain
- Reduplication without segments: verb doubling as a prosodic repair
- The Argument Structure Syntax of Statives: New Evidence from a Phrasal Stative Passive
- The Principle Minimal Compliance and derivational competition in South Caucasian agreement
- Unifying NPIs, FCIs, and Unconditionals in Dravidian
- Velar Palatalization in Modern Italian inflectional morphology